Kilinochchi District

Kilinochchi District கிளிநொச்சி மாவட்டம் කිලිනොච්චි දිස්ත්‍රික්කය
Administrative District
Kilinochchi District & Magistrate’s Court
Location within Sri Lanka
Coordinates: 09°25′N 80°25′E / 9.417°N 80.417°E / 9.417; 80.417
Country	Sri Lanka
Province	Northern
Created	February 1984
Capital	Kilinochchi
DS Division	List Kandavalai Karachchi Pachchilaipalli Poonakary
Government
• District Secretary	R. Ketheeswaran
• MPs	List Silvestri Alantine Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Vijayakala Maheswaran Suresh Premachandran E. Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah S. Sritharan A. Vinayagamoorthy
• MPCs	List P. Ariyaratnam T. Kurukularajah S. Pasupathipillai V. Thavanathan
Area [1]
• Total	1,279 km2 (494 sq mi)
• Land	1,205 km2 (465 sq mi)
• Water	74 km2 (29 sq mi)  5.79%
• Rank	23rd (1.95% of total area)
Population  (2012 census)[2]
• Total	112,875
• Rank	23rd (0.56% of total pop.)
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Ethnicity (2012 census)[2]
• Sri Lankan Tamil	109,528 (97.03%)
• Indian Tamil	1,682 (1.49%)
• Sinhalese	962 (0.85%)
• Sri Lankan Moors	678 (0.60%)
• Other	25 (0.02%)
Religion (2012 census)[3]
• Hindu	93,084 (82.47%)
• Christian	18,118 (16.05%)
• Buddhist	945 (0.84%)
• Muslim	678 (0.60%)
• Other	50 (0.04%)
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (Sri Lanka)
ISO 3166 code	LK-42
Vehicle registration	NP
Official Languages	Tamil, Sinhala
Website	Kilinochchi District Secretariat

Kilinochchi District (Tamil: கிளிநொச்சி மாவட்டம் Kiḷinocci Māvaṭṭam; Sinhala: කිලිනොච්චි දිස්ත්‍රික්කය) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary (previously known as a Government Agent) appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The capital of the district is the town of Kilinochchi.